时间:2019-02-13 作者:英语课 分类:英文语法词汇


英语课

   中文中很多习语都用数词来表达,比如,七上八下,千篇一律等等,这样的习语数不胜数。在英语中,数词也同样有丰富的含义,一起看看下面这些习语吧!


  1.(talk,go)nineteen to the dozen  喋喋不休/滔滔不绝
  当大部分人使用十二个单词表达含义时,某人用了十九个词,表示讲话滔滔不绝的意思,但选取十九这个数词的原因不得而知。
  They talked nineteen to the dozen about all they had done in that time.
  他们喋喋不休地谈着那段时间里他们所做过的一切。
  2.at sixes and sevens  七上八下/乱七八糟;意见不合
  该习语一种较为可信的来源是源于一种掷骰子游戏,five and six表示压较大的点数,后来被改成six and seven,短语的意义也随之发生了改变,由于7是不可能出现的点数,其含义变为“不顾一切冒险做某事”,后来这种不理智的状态引申为“混乱,乱七八糟”的含义。基数词一般不加复数。但此习语中为特例,两个基数词six和seven都用了复数形式。
  The boy made the room at sixes and sevens.
  这个男孩把房间弄得杂乱无章。
  They were at sixes and sevens.
  他们各持己见。
  3.six of one and half a dozen of the other  半斤八两/不相上下
  词短语的字面意思是一打中的六个,和另外一打中的一半。由于一打指十二个,因此这两者是数目相同的,此习语用来比喻不相上下。
  It's six of one and half a dozen of the other. The important thing is for you to understand the principle here.
  这种或那种方法都没区别,而重要的是你得理解其中的原理。

标签: 数词
学英语单词
a good samaritan
acinaces
acoustical reflectivity
aerial work basket
AFCI
all-eating
arctan function
arms forward with forearms inward
assimilability of food
Automatic Exercise
back cleaning
Bakalar Air Force Base
barrel pump
Belondo
Bertholet, C.
bit-serial communication
bloom-fell
CAMAC operation
Carnophobia
CHEILOBRANCHIDAE
chromium(ii) fluoride
community support officer
Constanti
contactless instrument
Coolunarium
crists
dental plasue
dental zone
diceros bicorniss
double movement
ecological genomics
emergency load
endogenic infection
engadin (engadine)
engine braking
equilibration triad
escape trace
exhaust gas turbo supercharger
expression statement
falls on
gas and dash
governing time
Grdelica
imeem
imprint position
inclined ball mill
income bond
inherent resolution
Kadiyevka
keynote
lcfu
liquefiers
long planet pinion
marine boundary layer
massumi
mastupration
maternal side
merchant service
mikha
mini-flexible disc
Mirpuris
mlechchha
Montcuq
neo-hombreol M
nocturnal binge eating
nonlinear circuit equation
ochocinco
oddsmaker
ostalgia
paraserica taiwana
platinized pumice
plurimetabolic
Pocito, Sa.del
property tax payable
Publius Ovidius Naso
put in the pin
raw value
richta scale
ripplets
robustaol
rushd
sacramental wine
scarlatinal arthritis
sharpers
Shigella septicaemiae
Sinhwangp'o-ri
sovereignty right
stipulative definition
suborder megachiropteras
substantive tests
Tanker Salvage
temporal summation
there's no use
time-resolved spectroscopy
totanus (totanus) gracilis
trend surface
underclift
uranyl pottasium carbonate
venoxidine
vertical/short takeoff and landing